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Brazilian debt jitters

Roberto Campos Neto, Brazil's Central Bank president, attends a ceremony at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, February 24, 2021. /Getty Editor's note: Andrés Velasco, a former president

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Google starts trialing its FLoC cookie alternative in Chrome

Google today announced that it is rolling out Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), a crucial part of its Privacy Sandbox project for Chrome, as a developer origin trial.FLoC is meant to be an alterna

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Spotify is getting into live audio because of course it is

Shares of Spotify are up a fraction this morning after the company announced that it will acquire Betty Labs, the company behind the Locker Room, which focuses on live audio. Prior to the deal, Betty

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Tibet marks 62th anniversary of democratic reform

This year marks the 62nd anniversary of the democratic reform of Tibet. On March 28, 1959, then-Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai issued a State Council Order declaring the "d

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HK says no systemic errors found in BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine probe

A sign outside a vaccination center after Hong Kong suspended the COVID-19 vaccine from BioNTech due to packaging defects, in Hong Kong, China, March 24, 2021. /Reuters

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African elephants are now endangered, one species close to extinction.

00:59 African forest elephants and their savannah cousins have seen alarming declines in population over the past few decades.Experts worry that poaching and habitat destruction could

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Suez Canal: Owner of cargo ship blocking waterway apologizes

A backhoe tries to dig out the keel of the Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship, that is wedged across the Suez Canal and blocking traffic in the vital waterway, March 25, 2021. /AP The Jap

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Orca Security raises $210M Series C at a unicorn valuation

Orca Security, an Israeli cybersecurity startup that offers an agent-less security platform for protecting cloud-based assets, today announced that it has raised a $210 million Series C round at a $1.

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Binance-backed Xend Finance launches DeFi platform for credit unions in Africa

Nigerian startup Xend Finance uses decentralized finance (DeFi) to address currency devaluation. DeFi aims to bridge the gap between decentralized blockchains and financial services. Aronu Ugochukwu a

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Filipino troops kill rebel commander, rescue last hostage

Philippine troops killed an Abu Sayyaf rebel commander blamed for years of ransom kidnappings and on Sunday rescued the last of his four Indonesian captives, the milita

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Zoos, scientists aim to curb people giving virus to animals

The coughing among the western lowland gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in January was the first warning sign. Soon the fears were confirmed: A troop of gorill

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Greece travel corridor brought in 'a large amount of virus', say UK experts

The study is likely to reignite the debate about travel corridors - expected to return in some form as restrictions are eased.

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Data shows how few Google Play developers will pay the higher 30% commission after policy change

Google this week announced its was cutting the commissions it charges Android app developers who publish on its Google Play marketplace, following a similar move by Apple last year aimed at fending of

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What eToro’s investor presentation and $10B valuation tells us about Robinhood

Amid all the news of the last few days, you might have missed that eToro, an Israeli consumer stock-trading service, is going public in the United States via a SPAC.Don’t worry about the SPAC bi

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China-U.S. meeting in Alaska: A 'frosting summit' or a reset?

06:13 Editor's note: High-level officials from China and the U.S. are meeting in Alaska on March 18 and 19, the first face-to-face meeting under the Biden administration. While such a

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E-commerce marketing startup Yotpo raises $230M at a $1.4B valuation

Barely more than seven months after its most recent funding announcement, Yotpo is revealing that it has raised another $230 million in a Series F round that values the company at $1.4 billion (post-m

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Unagi expands e-scooter subscriptions with $10.5M in new funding

Unagi, the startup behind the portable, design-centric electric scooters, is launching its subscription service to six more U.S. cities in an expansion fueled by $10.5 million in funding.The startup,